4 d. ago Police search for man's head after decapitated corpse found in tiger mauling

Krishna Prasad Sharma, 55, was found dead in Nepal's Madhesh province and is thought to have been killed by a tiger that bit his head off after he ventured into a forest

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5 d. ago Vilhelm’s Room by Tove Ditlevsen review – a portrait of catastrophic mental illness

Originally published a year before her death, the Danish author’s final novel is an autofictional suicide noteTove Ditlevsen’s last novel, Vilhelm’s Room, was originally published in Denmark in 1975. As it begins, the protagonist, Lise Mundus, has just been abandoned by Vilhelm, her husband of 20 years. He’s a celebrity newspaper editor; she’s an acclaimed writer with a history of addiction. From a bed in a psychiatric ward, Lise publishes a lonely hearts ad: “Recently escaped a long, unhappy marriage – aged 51, but youthful in spirit – wonderful son, aged 15 – household literary name – summerhouse – large flat in the city centre – temporarily incapacitated by a nervous breakdown – prefers a motorist.”The ad is seized upon by Lise’s malicious upstairs neighbour, Mrs Thomsen, who shows it to her young lodger/lover, Kurt, hoping he can financially exploit Lise. Kurt is duly installed in Lise’s home, but finds himself treated there with total indifference. Lise is wholly cons...

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3 w. ago Moment kidnap gang drive off with pregnant woman as they threatened to cut off her fingers if her partner didn't hand over cash and jewellery

Audi Johnson, Ahmad Ghiasi, and Nicholas Mitchell bundled their victim, 36, who was six months pregnant, into a van outside her home in Enfield, north, on May 10 of last year.

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3 w. ago Moment kidnap gang drive off with pregnant woman as they threatened to cut off her fingers if her partner didn't hand over cash and jewelry

Audi Johnson, Ahmad Ghiasi, and Nicholas Mitchell bundled their victim, 36, who was six months pregnant, into a van outside her home in Enfield, north, on May 10 of last year.

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3 w. ago Neighbour relives the moment he found his pregnant neighbour's lover's decapitated head on a spike in Waverley, Melbourne

A neighbour who lived next door to Melbourne's house of horror where a pregnant woman was allegedly murdered and her lover decapitated and his head left on a spike has relived the horror scene.

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3 w. ago Chilling details emerge after pregnant woman was allegedly killed and her partner decapitated with his head placed on a spike

Police have charged a man with a brutal double murder after a pregnant woman and her partner were found dead in Melbourne - the father-to-be's head severed and gruesomely mounted on a spike.

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3 w. ago Slain pregnant woman and her decapitated partner are identified

Homicide detectives probing an alleged double-murder in Melbourne's southeast are dealing with a house of horror after they discovered a man's decapitated head spiked on a stick.

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3 w. ago Pregnant woman found dead at home with decapitated man whose head was on spike

A man wearing a bloodied t-shirt and no shoes was arrested by police a few hours after the grim discovery of a man's head on a spike close to a dead pregnant woman

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